[zimdog]

Deployment means being ordered to a position. It does not mean they were in France, and Sheck clearly states that they were still in transit to France.

Deployment in France (Sheck's words) mean they were in France.

[lqclamar]

Deployment in France (Sheck's words) mean they were in France.

Nope. "Before the capitulation some 80,000 African troops had already been sent to France." - Michael Crowder, "Colonial West Africa," 1978, p. 270.